Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Les Misérables will return to Paris over four decades after its debut with major new French language production at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
Presented by Théâtre du Châtelet and SPJL Productions, in agreement with Cameron Mackintosh, the production which will be directed by Ladislas Chollat will make its debut at the prestigious venue from 22 November until 31 December 2024.
Commenting on the new production, Boublil and Schönberg said: “Created in Paris in 1980, our musical Les Misérables has travelled, after multiple rewrites, around the world and 40 years later has become the most performed musical in the world translated into 27 languages.
“For his return to Paris in French at the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet in 2024, Alain has treated himself to the pleasure of a final rewriting of the text that will contribute to the re-creation of the show in a new staging by Ladislas Chollat.
“This return to the source is a bit like re-enacting New York, New York on Broadway or Oliver Twist in London, the comforting feeling of coming home happily. It’s a natural return to where it all began for us, where Victor Hugo drew the inspiration for his major work of fiction in a street in Paris where convicts were dragged at the end of a chain to the hell that awaited them in the Toulon penal colony, now the opening scene of our musical.”
The production will mark the first time the musical has been performed in the French language at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
Angela Thomas
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